Machines designed simply to work well are so often beautiful, from axes to the Spitfire. I can spend hours at Pearns - and often have!
Machines designed simply to work well are so often beautiful, from axes to the Spitfire. I can spend hours at Pearns - and often have!
This looks like a place I'd love to visit. Old machines are so interesting to me.
Love the exposure on this, though I would have cropped the bottom and left edges to remove the few pixels of horizontal and vertical brightness, respectively.
Thanks, Phillip. I sweated to get that bottom one just right! I reduced its brightness, made it dead parallel, coaxed and finessed... That line, and the verticals at each edge, sort of frame the image for me. Without that horizontal one, the bottom of the image sort of drops out for me. But I did wonder how others would find it.
I know that feeling.
Before computers and solenoids, hands turned valves and eyes watched gages. These photos capture that time. Great photos.
Thanks, Steve! You're right. I hadn't really thought about the human dimension to this stuff, but you're spot-on. I do love the physicality of this, the textures and colours that tell a story of time.
Physicality. Great description of what this image evokes. I've been known to struggle to get a decent shot of an old machine in a museum. Or hit the brakes when I see something I can shoot outside without getting in trouble. :) Not got one this good yet.
Thanks, Cathleen! I've done plenty of hard braking, U-turns on narrow roads, and parking in dodgy places (had to get towed out, once...) in pursuit of a promising image. Promise unfulfilled that day I got towed. In the country, no phone network... sigh... good thing I got stuck in the morning.